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§§ 7319-7330 violates the condition of such bond or obligation, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7319. Failure to ring locomotive bell. Every person in charge, as engineer, of a locomotive engine, who omits to cause a bell to ring or a steam whistle to sound at the distance of at least eighty rods from the place where the track crosses, on the same level, any traveled.public way, is punishable by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding sixty days.

§ 7320. Intoxicated engineer or conductor. Every person who, while in charge as engineer, of a locomotive engine, or while acting as conductor or driver upon a railroad train or car, whether propelled by steam or drawn by horses, is intoxicated, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7321. Railroad employee's neglect of duty. Every engineer, conductor, brakeman, switchtender or other officer, agent or servant, of any railroad company, who is guilty of any willful violation or omission of his duty as such officer, agent or servant, by which human life or safety is endangered, the punishment for which is not otherwise prescribed, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7322. Guards at ice cutting, All persons and incorporated companies cutting ice in or upon any waters within the boundaries of this state, for the purpose of removing such ice for sale, shall surround the cuttings and openings made, with fences or bushes or other guards sufficient to warn all persons of such cuttings and openings.

§ 7323. How long maintained. Such fences or guards must be erected at or before the time of commencing such cuttings or openings, and must be maintained until ice has again formed in such openings to the thickness of at least six inches.

§ 7324. Violations, misdemeanor. Every person who violates the provisions of the last two sections is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7325. Obstructing navigation. Every person who in any manner obstructs the free navigation of any navigable water course within this state, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7326. Exposing person with contagious disease. Every person who wilīfully exposes himself or another person, being affected with any contagious disease, in any public place or thoroughfare, except in his necessary removal in a manner not dangerous to the public health, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7327. Frauds to affect market price. Every person who willfully makes or publishes any false statement, spreads any false rumor or employs any other false or fraudulent means or device, with intent to affect the market price of any kind of property, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7328. False statements to increase newspaper sales. Every editor or proprietor of any newspaper who willfully publishes in such newspaper as true, any statement which he has not good reason to believe to be true, with intent to increase thereby the sales of copies of such paper, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7329. Eavesdropping: Every person guilty of secretly loitering about any building, with intent to overhear discourse therein and to repeat or publish the same to vex, annoy or injure others, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7330. Racing upon highways. Every person driving any conveyance drawn by horses upon any public road or way. who 1294